My computer used to have a smooth connection with my Wifi but it got busted and I had to reformat my OS. Sad to say I have lost the CDs for my drivers but good thing I was able to retrieve a couple through the dell support website. Almost everything is working fine except for my wifi. I just dont know how to set up my wifi again. I can connect through LAN, but I need my wifi and I need help how to do this.

When you go to to Programs>Wifi Utility and then run utility and click on the connect button. What happens? You can also double click on the wifi icon that is located in the bottom right task bar to access the wifi utility or panel.

Also go into your device manager and see if there are no yellow exclamation icons. If there are then let me know what devices they are or you can simply go ahead and install the drivers for them. You just reinstalled your OS so be sure to make sure all your drivers have been installed.

If you do not have find any yellow exclamation icons or problems in the device manager, then you should be good to go unless you are entering your wireless key/password incorrectly.

Are there any devices under Network adapters that have a red x displayed?

Also, are there any devices anywhere in the Device Manager display with yellow ? or ! displayed?

It would be best if you could post a screen shot of Device Manager with the Network adapters and Other devices sections expanded.

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Let's see this as well.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD then press Enter to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following command:

Note that there is a space before the /ALL, but there is NOT a space after the / in the following command.

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter to copy the contents to the clipboard.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

__________________Remember: Data you don't have at least two copies of is data you don't care about.

This is the only thing that I can see under device manager. Under network adapters it says "Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller and under it is "Other Devices" with yellow question mark before it. Then under it is "Ethernet Controller" with an exclamation point and question mark before it.

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